The Countertop Chronicles

The bottom has fallen out. I’d say Fire Phil Fulmer, but they already did.

Might as well forfeit the rest.

Pathetic

As the underdog forces of good meet evil on the ultimate battlefield over the next few days, I think all red blooded, nose to the ground, All VOLUNTEER Army loving, American’s can agree

Go Vols! Beat ‘Bama!!

Need I say anymore??

Nope. Glenn Reynolds has more though.

Last week, I was a respectable 9-7. Lets see how I can do this week!

But more importantly, what’s up with the Monday Night Football double headers. Is that going to be a feature ALL season long?? And perhaps more importantly, where is Monday night’s Texans Ravens game going to end up being played??

Week 2, 2008

Sunday September 14, 2008:

Chicago Bears (1-0) @ Carolina Panthers (1-0) - my pick: The Panthers
Tennessee Titans (1-0) @ Cincinnatti Bengals (0-1) - my pick: The Bengals
Green Bay Packers (1-0) @ Detroit Lions (0-1) - my pick: The Packers
Buffalo Bills (1-0) @ Jacksonville Jaguars (0-1) - my pick: The Bills
Oakland Raiders (0-1) @ Kansas City Chiefs (0-1) - my pick: The Chiefs
Indianapolis Colts (0-1) @ Minnesota Vikings (0-1) - my pick: The Colts
NY Giants (1-0) @ Saint Louis Rams (0-1) - my pick: The Giants
New Orleans Saints (1-0) @ Washington Redskins (0-1) - my pick: The Skins
San Francisco 49?ers (0-1) @ Seattle Seahawks (0-1) - my pick: The Hawks
Atlanta Falcons (1-0) @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-1) - my pick: The Bucs
Miami Dolphins (0-1) @ Arizona Cardinals (1-0) - my pick: The Dolphins
San Diego Chargers (0-1) @ Denver Broncos (1-0) - my pick: The Broncs
New England Patriots (1-0) @ NY Jets (1-0) - my pick: The Jets
Pittsburgh Steelers (1-0) @ Cleveland Browns (0-1) - my pick: The Steelers

Monday Night Football Games - September 15:
Baltimore Ravens (1-0) @ Houston Texans (0-1) - my pick: The Ravens
Philadelphia Eagles (1-0) @ Dallas Cowboys (1-0) - my pick: The Cowboys

The Gun Toting Liberal is keeping track of the games, and making predictions.

What a great idea . . . so good, I ought to do it.

And so, with the season starting tomorrow night (tomorrow?!?!?!?!) in conflict with McCain’s acceptance speech (I knew the left wing MSM was anti Republican, didn’t realize the NFL was too!) here we go

Week 1, 2008

Opening Night, Thu, Sep 04

Washington Redskins (0-0) @ New York Giants (0-0) — my pick: The Giants

Sun, Sep 07

Detroit Lions (0-0) @ Atlanta Falcons (0-0) — my pick: The Falcons
Seattle Seahawks (0-0) @ Buffalo Bills (0-0) — my pick: The Seahawks
New York Jets (0-0) @ Miami Dolphins (0-0) — my pick: The Dolphins (sorry Brett)
Kansas City Chiefs (0-0) @ New England Patriots (0-0) — my pick: The Patriots
Tampa Bay Buccaneers (0-0) @ New Orleans Saints (0-0) — my pick: The Saints
Saint Louis Rams @ (0-0) Philadelphia Eagles (0-0) — my pick: The Eagles
Houston Texans (0-0) @ Pittsburgh Steelers (0-0) — my pick: The Steelers
Jacksonville Jaguars (0-0) @ Tennessee Titans (0-0) — my pick: The Jaguars
Cincinnati Bengals (0-0) @ Baltimore Ravens (0-0) — my pick: The Ravens
Dallas Cowboys (0-0) @ Cleveland Browns (0-0) — my pick: The Browns
Carolina Panthers (0-0) @ San Diego Chargers (0-0) — my pick: The Chargers
Arizona Cardinals (0-0) @ San Francisco 49?ers (0-0) — my pick: The Cardinals
Chicago Bears (0-0) @ Indianapolis Colts (0-0) — my pick: The Colts

Monday Night Football Games, Sep 08

Minnesota Vikings (0-0) @ Green Bay Packers (0-0) — my pick: The Vikings
Denver Broncos (0-0) @ Oakland Raiders (0-0) — my pick: The Broncos

Check back next Tuesday to see how I did.

Just loving life today

What A Game!!!!

17-14.

Sweeeet!!

Go Giants!!

Beat the Pats!!!

Another SECOND National Championship Blowout.

Stewart Mandel can kiss my smelly S.E.C. ass.

Sorry if I don’t get all the false tears over the death of Sean Taylor. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, we ought to be celebrating one less criminal from society.

Remember

Taylor began his N.F.L. career with the Redskins inauspiciously. He was fined $25,000 by the league even before he played a single down. After signing a 7-year, $18 million contract, he left a rookie symposium early and was reprimanded by the league. There was a gun incident in June 2005 and that on-field spitting incident in the 2006 playoffs, as well as fines for illegal hits and uniform violations.

An $18 million dollar contract and they thought a 21 year old would care about a piddling $25,000 fine? Come on!!

And about those other run ins . . .

Since the Redskins drafted Taylor, the safety has had several brushes with the law and National Football League rules. Taylor was charged with a felony count of aggravated assault with a firearm for allegedly brandishing a gun in a Miami neighborhood in 2005.

Taylor reached a plea agreement and avoided jail time, but was fined $71,764 by the NFL for violating the personal conduct clause of his contract.

The NFL also has fined Taylor for illegal hits, uniform violations and spitting on Tampa Bay running back Michael Pittman during a playoff game in January 2006. In 2004, Gibbs suspended Taylor for one game after he was arrested for driving under the influence; those charges were later dropped.

Think maybe he would have straightened himself out if he actually suffered some real consequences for being a thug??

Peter King at Sports Illustrated said

it’s another example of senseless gun violence robbing America of another citizen, and we’re all poorer for it.

No, this isn’t about senseless gun violence. Its about free will and the intelligence to make choices in life and suffer the consequences of those choices. Sean Taylor never did suffer for his earlier poor choices. When it finally came time to make amends, it was too late and the results are not only tragic, but all too predictable.

I feel bad for his daughter, but can’t feel sorry for him.

When you play with fire, when you dance with the devil, your going to get burned!

Now back to the beach!

UPDATE

Apparently, some Redskins board linked to this post. Thanks for the traffic guys!!

I’ve allowed a few of the comments to go through, but there’s about 20 which I decided not to simply because they had nothing to say other than variations of “fuck you” or “I hope someone kills you.”

Real classy guys. If you have something relevant to say, say it. You can even swear and say Fuck You, just have something more to your comment.

Regarding the substance of these other comments I let through, as I stated - I feel bad for his daughter and his family. And indeed, its sad when anyone dies. But I think the head in the sand reaction of these guys is just reinforcing my larger point about society willing to strain to look the other way when all is obvious.

That would be PETE THAMEL and THAYER EVANS who, in reporting on the incredible turnover we’ve witnessed at the top of college football and that it looked like Missouri and West Virginia might play for the national championship, stated (in the 2nd paragraph of their story)

With one week remaining in the regular season of this most unpredictable of college football campaigns, a similar possibility may await. The University of Missouri and West Virginia University are each one victory from playing for college football’s national title. Neither university has won a national title in football. Rarely has either one come close.

Well, thats certainly true of Missouri, but not West Virginia.

Over the last 20 years, in fact, West Virginia has fielded a fairly competitive team, playing for the National Championship twice (which, while not at the level of performance of say Florida State, is nothing to sneeze at). If they make it, this will be the third National Championship game they’ve played in (which, for instance, is better than my team the University of Tennessee)

Generally speaking, WVU is the winningest college football program that has never won a National Championship.
Following the 1988 season, AN UNDEFEATED West Virginia, led by All American superstar Major Harris lost in the Fiesta Bowl (and with it, the National Championship) to the only other undefeated team in football, Notre Dame.
Following the 1993 season, AN UNDEFEATED West Virginia, lost in the Sugar Bowl (and with it, a share of a split National Championship) to Florida
In Week 10 of the 2006 season, A THEN undefeated WVU team was ranked #3
Overall, WVU has participated in 25 bowl games; their record stands at 11-15. Major bowls include the Sugar Bowl (3 times), Peach Bowl (4 times), Fiesta Bowl (1 time), and the Gator Bowl (6 times).

Win or lose (right now, with 5 minutes left, it sure does look like Da Vols are gonna blow a huge first half lead) isn’t it time we Fired Phil Fulmer?

UPDATE

Well, I’ll be damned! Fulmer blows a 24-7 halftime lead and still manages to win in the 4th Overtime 52-50.
Think we can beat LSU???

Think we even deserve to be in Atlanta???

Heck no. Fire Phil Fulmer

btw, Ainge had a hell of a game. 400 yards and 7 touchdowns passing. Holy Cow!

I don’t care if they won, and might even make it to the SECOND championship game. Phil’s got to go. That performance was hideous, and we should never be a missed last second field goal away from defeat, especially not when playong Vandy.

I suspect that Kentucky stands a pretty good chance of winning the keg back next week.

Did they just pull one of the all time greatest comebacks ever??

Not quite Doug Flutieish in its last play glamor, but the total swing of events of the last two minutes and 11 seconds is right up there with Vinny Testaverde’s great comeback against the Dolphins.

In fact, when Lamar Smith scored with 12 seconds left in the third quarter to give the Dolphins a 30-7 lead, Fiedler walked over to Jason Taylor and told him the game was over. Little did Fielder know that Taylor was being miked by Monday Night Football. Or that he just jinxed his team.

And how cool is it that I’ve seen all three of what will go down as the greatest comebacks in football?